The Nikkei Japanese news agency was on Wednesday formally notified of the detention of its Chinese news assistant two weeks after she was taken from her home by Chinese security agents.
The detention is part of a pattern of arrests of civil rights activists and increased pressure on the international media ahead of next Wednesday’s 25th anniversary of the massacre of student and worker protesters in Tiananmen Square.
Xin Jian, who has been working for the Nikkei since 2004, was being held on suspicion of “picking quarrels and provoking troubles”, the Nikkei said.
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